I'm not sure when that's going to happen either, there's currently 8 chapters published after vol 7, and with the amount of pages Hidamari has had lately I think we might need around 8 more to get enough for a tankoubon.

Doesn't seem like anyone's mentioned this on the archive, but all of the English translated Hidamari books are available on Google's bookstore if you search for the individual volumes (i.e. "Sunshine Sketch 1," "Sunshine Sketch 2," etc.)

It's really picky about Vol. 4, though. I only got it to show up by searching "Sunshine Sketch Volume 4"

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It hardly matters when nearly everyone on /a/ who watches anime or reads manga is pirating.
If you want to pay at least go for something tangible.

I hardly think downloading free online translations is going to hurt Ume considering she doesn't get much from localized copies anyway and that we have a number of anons who buy a lot of Hidamari merch from Japan.